On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:18:01PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote: > then i tried: > > $ time git cvsimport -d `pwd`/cvs -C src.git src > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/git/freebsd/src.git/.git/ > malformed revision This is the actual error; everything else is git-cvsimport failing to notice the problem and continuing anyway. I will take a look and see if it is simple to stop the process here and produce a better error message. > 1) does cvsimport supports the case when the source if on the local > filesystem, and not in not on a cvs server? Yes, it should work fine (it will still call cvsps and CVS, so it should look the same to git-cvsimport). > 2) if it supports, then i think the real error message is 'malformed > revision'. what is the proper way to see where is that revision? Try git-cvsimport -v. -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html